My wife and I plan to go for the parade Saturday morning. This year's guests are George Takei, Walter Koehning, and Nichelle Nicholls (the original Sulu, Checkov and Uhura).

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JediTricks

06-22-2009, 04:32 PM

That sounds really cool, I hadn't heard about this.

It saddens me that you had to say who those actors played. Maybe it's because you garbled the spelling of their names. :p J/k

I look forward to hearing your report.

2-1B

06-22-2009, 05:37 PM

I just learned 2 days ago that Walter Koenig's son played Boner on Growing Pains.

JimJamBonds

06-22-2009, 10:29 PM

I just learned 2 days ago that Walter Koenig's son played Boner on Growing Pains.

Really?!?!?!?! How did you come across that golden nugget of info? Also, what is Boner doing now that he's all grown's up?

pbarnard

06-23-2009, 10:38 AM

I'm just going to the parade and hanging around till me and the pregnant wife can't take the heat and humidity.

2-1B

06-23-2009, 09:01 PM

Really?!?!?!?! How did you come across that golden nugget of info? Also, what is Boner doing now that he's all grown's up?

I was reading a list the other day on Topless Robot.com of the "best" (a term with a broad range of interpretation as I quickly learned by watching them) fan films ever made...and they listed the 8 minute fan-made Batman movie in which Bats fights against an Alien, a Predator, and Boner from Growing Pains. He really did fight against a Predator and Alien, no joke, and the other villain was The Joker, played by Andrew Koenig. I IMDb'd his name and sure enough, he is the spawn of Chekov. As to what section of the Where Are They Now? file that he's been residing in, IMDb said he's doing improv comedy in Cali.

Sorry to hijack your thread pbarnard, it's rare to see Convention posts so it's cool to see some life here. I go to Wizard World in Chicago ever year (since 2002) and I once saw Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols there. I didn't get their autographs but a friend did, so I said hello to them and they were very cordial.

And I can't pretend like I never heard of that Batman movie, because I actually saw a few seconds of it before, playing at a dealer's table at...you guessed it...Wizard World.

JimJamBonds

06-24-2009, 10:13 AM

Thank you Sir!

JediTricks

06-25-2009, 03:19 PM

I just learned 2 days ago that Walter Koenig's son played Boner on Growing Pains.I didn't know that Andrew Koenig was his son, that's pretty cool.

pbarnard

06-27-2009, 09:38 PM

Wife is working on the pictures. Nice little parade. Very different from a lot of small town festivals in that they aren't really trying to cash in (blatantly). Impressions were that Takei was outward and interacting with any and everybody. Yell at him, he'd respond. Nicholls was smiling, waving, would say something if they screamed "We Love You", while Koening looked like he wanted to be anywhere else. I didn't go to the question/autograph session.

High point, the "anouncer" of the parade mangled Takei's name, it came out Tack-y. He than shouts out, "You're cute, but I'm not going to take you out later for that!" to which everyone around laughed, the announcer seemed to have missed something.

Beyond that a lot of rural fire departments and volunteer ambulance services, kids t-ball leagues, and Shriners. The Cedar Rapids, IA 501st Garrison was there with Starfleet Logos on their left chests.

JediTricks

06-28-2009, 02:31 PM

Sounds like fun, not at all what I was expecting. I've gotten so used to everything being so corporate and trying to sell the public on something.

TeeEye7

06-28-2009, 03:12 PM

Agreed. Sounds like it's worth making the effort next year, especially for me.

Never been to Iowa and my great-grandparents were from Jones County (Montecito area). My grandfather was born in Pomeroy. The family slowly moved west until it was stay or start swimming. Still have extended family in Jones County that I've never met.

Yes, something to consider! :thumbsup:

pbarnard

02-23-2010, 09:51 AM

2010 Trek Fest has 2 guests lined up already, but they were minor players in TOS.

James Cawley and BarBara Luna. 2 more are TBA

June 25-26, 2010. Don't know if I'll go this year only because we'll have just moved, and may finally go up to see my grandmother so she can see the baby finally in Michigan.

If anyone wants to go or stops by, please let me know. I might be able to put you up for the night at the new place if everything works out.

JediTricks

02-23-2010, 04:46 PM

James Cawley is a friggin' fan! He's the one starring in and producing New Voyages/Phase II. He was apparently in the new "Star Trek" as well as an extra. That's not IMO a reasonable guest, he's someone Paramount was considering suing for a time, from what I've heard.

pbarnard

02-23-2010, 04:59 PM

Well that's why I'd only go to the parade and not pay for the Q&A session at the casino...maybe eat at the casino, but maybe they can pull some one from the movie or there's the ever diminishing hope...Nimoy, and bump the rest of them.